Fluorescent light bulbs, Mercury, Adrenal Fatigue. I am in worse off shape. Warning this is long.

I just want to say that when I first started posting on this forum several years ago I was in really bad shape in relation to my adrenal health. I made leaps and bounds with pantethine supplements and urine therapy. I never used them consistently and yet the effects from their use lasted years. I felt I helped my health even more by moving from Miami, Fl to a more quiet and less moldy atmosphere. I went from not even being able to put a small M&M in my mouth (because I could go into a seizure from a bad blood Sugar reaction) to now finally being able to eat a candy bar with no immediate effects.

I never thought I would see the day that I would be able to eat candy. Not that I am going to eat it often because I want better health. It's just nice to know that I can. Or should I say could.



I do not know if I posted this or not but this past summer I had one of the worst health challenges. I replaced all of my bulbs in my house with fluorescent so I could help save our planet. I thought I was doing a great thing. Until my son was playing in my dining room with a small rope and a toy tied to the end. He was slinging it around and it caused the bulb to break.

I knew from reading a dr. mercola article just days before that the bulbs contained a small amount of mercury. I did not know however, that the mercury would rise up in vapors. So I immediately told my son to leave the room only because I thought that is where the mercury would be contained. I looked online to see how to clean up the spill and stayed in the house.

I started feeling really funny. I tried to ignore it as I thought I was probably doing it to myself from worrying. I started getting worse so I retreated from my house to my guest house. I started feeling better and thought I would go back because I was probably just having a low blood Sugar moment or something like that I rationalized in my head.

Anyways I went back to get info on how to clean it up so I could set off to the store and gather what I needed. I came across a website that said to leave the house immediately and turn down the temp in the house because mercury rises with heat. So I turned on the AC to make it colder. Well your not suppose to turn on the AC as this will only circulate the mercury in your house and make things much worse. I made things much worse by doing so and eventually my guest house got the vapors in from my house being open and the guest house as well.

I felt so sick and scared from the vapors. I told myself that this couldn't be happening because they said only very small amounts are in the bulb and that it should not cause any harm.

The website also said to take fine powdered sulfur or zinc and sprinkle it on the mercury to bind it. So off to home depot my husband and I went. We bought body suits, special masks, gloves, the sulfur, duct tape, a vacuum with a hepa filter and I sat out in the car as he went in looking like something from NASA to clean up the spill.

Everything was fine for a long time then I started feeling really weird again. About that time he came outside and I told him we have to leave because I'm feeling weird. He took off his suit and mask and went in to shower and put on clean clothes so as not to make me worse. I told him everything was fine until I started feeling really weird towards the end and he said he was putting down and sprinkling sulfur all around the carpet around the time I was feeling weird. Well I ended up not being able to be within a block to 2 blocks of my house without getting really ill. We had to buy a special mask just for me to be near the house.

He ended up ripping the carpet out because we knew that was the best thing to do. And cleaning the floor with lava soap (it has a sulfur base that was recommended to clean your skin if you come in contact with mercury). For several months I could not go around my house without a special mask and ended up sleeping in my car at times and most of the time in a hotel. It put a huge financial burden on us as paying for your home and a hotel every month along with other bills gets quite expensive. But worst yet, It put a huge burden on my body and adrenal glands.

Eventually we got someone to go help my husband on his days off to clean our home from top to bottom with lava soap and orange goop. The orange goop was recommended to get rid of the sulfur. After days of cleaning the inside I bought something to pressure wash the outside of my house because the sulfur had spread through the air and contaminated my whole block.

Eventually I was able to sleep in my car outside my house with a mask off. I still could not go inside without getting really ill. My immediate family had no problem with the house for the most part and slept inside. From others that visited they thought I was totally exaggerating the whole thing cause they felt nothing. I had air purifiers through the whole house and eventually the time came that I could be in my house without a mask. It took quite a while.

Let me say that after that I had stronger chemical sensitivities but nothing crazy like now. Now here I am this winter sitting here barely able to be around so much as a rubber glove without getting extremely ill. If someone burns food while cooking everyone scrambles to turn on the air purifier and open the windows and doors to keep me from getting extremely ill. I can't walk down my street without getting ill and feeling as if I will pass out from exhuast fumes. I am looking into buying a mask now just to be able to function and hopefully give myself time to heal.


I never thought that what happened this past summer would take so long to affect me in such a huge way like now. But the more I think of it I think it's the only logical answer. I mean I immediately got more chemical sensitivities but now I am basically disabled by them. My adrenal health is poor. Last night I became so sensitive to noise and so wiped out I literally thought I was dying. My fingers and toes are wrinkled terribly like they were when I first started out with this problem. For some reason the worse off my adrenals are the more wrinkled my fingers and toes become. I just turned 30 and have been dealing with the wrinkling since I was about 25 so I am not old enough for natural wrinkling yet. My muscles are so weak now that it's getting to where I need help getting around if I can even get up at all.

So here is my protocol. I have been doing urine therapy very seriously and consistently since last night and it has helped me to be able to cope. I am getting ready to start Dr. Wilson's adrenal glandulars and isocort. I am going to go back on my really low carb diet to give my adrenal glands a break while I hopefully get them to heal. And the pantethine is an every day thing now. My problem is that on shirley's wellness cafe it said even low dose cortisol could harm you or kill you. I know that Dr. Teitelbaum says you can take low dose cortisol safely but her website says otherwise and that scares me. I did not read this til last night or I would not have suggested it to others. Does anyone know of anything to help me figure out whether or not to take the isocort? Is it possible to contact shirley on her page because I did not see a contact button. I am sorry if I am overlooking something but I am having the hardest time concentrating now and even fully understanding a lot of times what I am reading since this has happened. Does anyone here get the severe wrinkling of the skin? I also am taking Organic Royal Maca which has helped.


Ok the point of this long drawn out speech was to let others know that fluorescent light bulbs are not that great for your body if broken and really can't be that good for the environment if we have all those bulbs with mercury sitting in landfills. You are trading in one problem for 2 by using them in my opinion. I read that LED lights were safer and still saved energy yet more expensive.


Edit: Let me add in here that while at the hotel I was staying at, my hand turned green and veiny. I had just returned from my home while my husband was trying to clean the house and I started getting extremely ill and went to the hotel and got in the shower and my veins started appearing all over my hands. I even had navy blue veins popping out and I had never seen anything like it. My hand was green and my husband and I both said it looked like something you would see on the incredible hulk after being exposed to some toxic radiation. Or should I say my hand had a green tint. That would be more accurate. I was so terrified I called the ambulance to go get checked out at the hospital. The doctor did not believe me and she was not much help. Tweet